Presidential candidate Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday, Nov. 5 urged President Duterte to give the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) authority to release excise tax proceeds on locally manufactured Virginia-type cigarettes for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 to local government units...
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on Thursday, Nov. 4 cited for contempt Lloyd Christopher Lao, a former official at the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Service (DBM-PS), for avoiding the panel’s ongoing investigation into the national government’s procurement of overpriced...
Presidential aspirant Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Tuesday said the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s hearings on the alleged anomalous transaction between the Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation and the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Services (DBM-PS) is already...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is rigidly scrutinizing the power supply agreements (PSAs) entered into by distribution utilities (DUs) in its bid to strictly disallow ‘overcontracting’ in the electricity supply procurements of regulated power utilities. “Our priorities now, we are...
Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday branded two executives of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation “Senate fugitives” after they stopped participating in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s ongoing investigation into the alleged overpriced COVID-19 supplies. Gordon said the actions of...
The Senate Blue Ribbon committee on Thursday October 28 asked the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to create a Task Force to investigate a potential P7.56 billion in income taxes due from suppliers of P42 billion worth of COVID 19-related medical supplies through contracts given by the Procurement...
Malacañang expressed confidence Tuesday, Oct. 26 that the government would be able distribute the P1-billion fuel subsidy it had committed to the public transport sector before the end of the year. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (Photo from Harry Roque's Facebook) Presidential...
Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chair and Senator Richard Gordon on Tuesday welcomed the National Privacy Commission (NPC) for saying that the law on data privacy rights cannot be invoked as an excuse to evade legal proceedings. Gordon, who leads the Senate’s hearing into the alleged anomalous...
Senator Richard Gordon said it was very clear that President Duterte is at the center of the “grand conspiracy” to defraud the government of billions of pesos at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Gordon made the remark when he released the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s initial...
Senators are eyeing a special provision under the proposed 2022 General Appropriations Act (GAA) that would put an end to the practice of government agencies of transferring their funds to the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Service (DBM-PS) and the Philippine International...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday said the government should ban Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group from doing business in the country over its non-payment of income and other taxes after bagging multi-billion contracts with the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement...
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on Tuesday released its preliminary report on its investigation on the alleged anomalies in the government’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic funds and recommended that charges be filed against a former state economic adviser, Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp....
